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129
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Wells Fargo & Company:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Wells Fargo & Company and Subsidiaries (“the
Company”) as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in
stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended
December 31, 2007. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the results of its operations and its cash
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2007, in conformity with U.S. generally
accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007, based on criteria
established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the
Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated February 25, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on the
effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting
for income taxes, leveraged lease transactions, certain mortgages held for sale and retained interests, and provided
additional disclosure regarding the measurement of fair value for financial assets and liabilities in 2007, and changed
its method of accounting for residential mortgage servicing rights and stock-based compensation in 2006.
San Francisco, California
February 25, 2008
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm